Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Benjamin Weaver is an outsider in eighteenth-century London: a Jew among Christians; a ruffian among aristocrats; a retired pugilist who, hired by London’s gentry, travels through the criminal underworld in pursuit of debtors and thieves. In A CONSPIRACY OF PAPER, Weaver must investigate a crime of the most personal sort, involving the mysterious death of his estranged father, a notorious…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 865 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 563) Аннотация: After twenty-five years of working in the shadowy world of espionage Keith Landry is on his way home. Driving along the highway, humming a few bars of 'Homeward Bound', the twenty-five years' service he has given the US government are fast becoming a distant memory. He is safe. He is alone. And life has never felt sweeter as the signs for hometown Spencerville come into view. Keith Landry has…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to Mc Lean Hospital to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele — Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor and Ray Charles. A clear-sighted, unflinching…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Anna packs her bags one day without telling anyone where and why she is going — just that she'll be back soon. Her thoughts, as she boards a plane, is that this journey will give her time to think about her life — as a woman hitting forty, a journalist and a single mother. She has no premonition that she will become a statistic in a missing person file. Left at home is Anna's beloved six year old…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 998 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 393) Аннотация: Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation. Financially transparent, internally democratic and disavowing conventional familial inheritance, the character of The Business seems, even to Kate, to be vague to the point of invisibility. It possesses, allegedly, a book of Leonardo cartoons, several sets of Crown Jewels and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: St Patrick's Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act — the seizure of Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman Brian Flynn once loved, a former terrorist turned peace activist. Among his enemies: an…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 222 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 437) Аннотация: The fingerprints say the murderer is the man who's just been executed ... At 11.05 one December evening in Richmond, Virginia, convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the electric chair. At the morgue Dr Kay Scarpetta waits for Waddell's body. Preparing to perform a post-mortem before the subject is dead is a strange feeling, but Scarpetta has been here before. And Waddell's…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 967 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 387) Аннотация: The first hit man came after me at home, which should be against the rules. Then there was a second, and a third. Eventually, I found out that the word on the street was that Anita Blake, preternatural expert and vampire killer extraordinaire, was worth half a million dollars. Dead, not alive. So what's a girl to do but turn to the men in her life for help? Which in my case means an alpha…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 982 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 390) Аннотация: White Oleander is a painfully beautiful first novel about a young girl growing up the hard way. It is a powerful story of mothers and daughters, their ambiguous alliances, their selfish love and cruel behaviour, and the search for love and identity.Astrid has been raised by her mother, a beautiful, headstrong poet. Astrid forgives her everything as her world revolves around this beautiful…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: The bestselling author of THE STRANGER BESIDE ME, DEAD BY SUNSET and BITTER HARVEST, Ann Rule is an acknowledged expert on violent crimes. In this fifth volume of fascinating true cases, she explores the circumstances that has driven ordinary people to cross society's boundaries and commit the desperate act of murder. In THE END OF THE DREAM, Ann Rule chillingly profiles the workings of a…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 023 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 594) Аннотация: As D. M. Thomas states in his masterly biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 'He helped to bring down the greatest tyranny the world has seen, besides educating the West as to its full horror. No other writer in our century has had such an influence on our history.' The author of The First Circle, Cancer Ward and The Gulag Archipelago can truly be said to have…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 365 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 661) Аннотация: Robert Jordan’s masterful epic fantasy, The Wheel of Time, continues … The Seanchan invasion force is in possession of Ebou Dar. Nynaeve, Elayne and Aviendha head for Caemlyn and Elayne’s rightful throne, but on the way they discover an enemy much worse than the Seanchan. In Illian, Rand vows to throw the Seanchan back as he did once before, although signs of madness are appearing among the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 998 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 393) Аннотация: In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard too has his enemies. He also has at least one person he cares for deeply and who cares for him, though…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: An assignment brings Vincent — permanent student and budding young writer — into the world of Sebastian Wells and the Prometheus League. Under the guise of a Victorian gaming society it operates extremist and covert activities. Threatening exposure, Vincent is thrown into a game of life or death.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 921 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 574) Аннотация: Recuperating in Long Island after a being injured on duty, NYPD homicide detective, John Corey, is hired to investigate the murders of Tom and Judy Gordon. Had the biologists discovered a new vaccine or dreaded virus at their animal disease research site on Plum Island? Corey thinks otherwise.
Скачать книгу (размер 753 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 149) Аннотация: A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in FREE LOVE are about desire, memory, sexual ambiguity and the imagination. In the harsh light of dislocation, the people in them still find connections, words blowing in the street, love in unexpected places. Ali Smith examine show things come…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: The war is ending, perhaps ended. But for the castle and its occupants, the troubles are just beginning — armed gangs roam a lawless land and taking to the roads with the other refugees, anonymous in their raggedness, seems safer than remaining in the ancient keep.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 294 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 451) Аннотация: Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 375 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 467) Аннотация: This is David Foster Wallace's first novel, reissued to coincide with his new short story collection.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Over half a century after her movie debut at the age of ten, Elizabeth Taylor is the only star from Hollywood's Golden Age who continues to hit the headlines. After nine marriages, numerous affairs, 30 operations, two Academy Awards and frequent sojourns in drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinics, she has now reinvented herself as businesswoman, AIDS campaigner and diamond collector, while…